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16 DEMOSTHENES. burn the arsenal ; whereupon the man was condemned by that court, and suffered for it. He accused, also, Theoris, the priestess, amongst other misdemeanors, of having instructed and taught the slaves to deceive and cheat their masters, for which the sentence of death passed upon her, and she was executed. The oration which Apollodorus made use of, and by it carried the cause against Timotheus, the general, in an action of debt, it is said was written for him by Demos- thenes ; as also those against Phormion and Stephanus, in which latter case he was thought to have acted dis- honorably, for the speech which Phormion used against Apollodorus was also of his making ; he, as it were, hav- ing simply furnished two adversaries out of the same shop with weapons to wound one another. Of his orar tions addressed to the public assemblies, that against Androtion, and those against Tiinocrates and Aristocrates, were written for others, before he had come forward him- self as a politician. They were composed, it seems, when he was but seven or eight and twenty years old. That agjiinst Aristogiton, and that for the Immunities, he spoke himself, at the request, as he says, of Ctesippus, the son of Chabrias, but, as some say, out of courtship to the young man's mother. Though, in fact, he did not marry her, for his wife was a woman of Samos, as Demetrius, the Magnesian, writes, in his book on Persons of the same Name. It is not certain whether his oration as:ainst ^schines, for Misconduct as Ambassador, was ever spoken ; although Idomeneus says that ^schines wanted only thirty voices to condemn him. But this seems not to be correct, at least so far as may be conjectured from both their orations concerning the Crown ; for in these, neither of them speaks clearly or directly of it, as a cause that ever came to trial. But let others decide this contro- versy.